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How to improve your image

Nope, it's not a new feature of publisher, sorry, we can't help with your persona but we can help with your template images.

Most of you know about the 'dummy' image approach to putting images/pictures into your templates. You insert a dummy image into the template and then in the properties dialog for the image navigate to the Web tab and use the following command:

url:{檀ttp://www.oracle.com/images/ora_logo.gif筑

This works great as long as the dummy image dimensions match or are of the same aspect. If not then you are going to get some interesting images at best. Not the best way to introduce your company to your clients with a whacky image on your invoices that looks only vaguely like your logo.

You have another option, that is to add a field in the template that will call the image in directly. Its a piece of XSL rather than a friendlier publisher expression but when needs must. Its fairly straight forward but must be embedded inside a formfield.

I am new to BI Publisher and I was wonderng if you can help me...
I need to show a report with a logo image that changes based on the user logged in to our site. I am usining oracle APEX and BI publisher to create the rtf file which I then load into oracle apex for printing to pdf. We have image locations stored in our database but the images are stored on the server and not in the database as BLOBs.
Any way to show these images dynamically by getting the image name from the report query?

i have to produce documents where the image will change with the data selected. i can hard code the uri using both the image place holder and the methods. but i can't get either method to work when using the uri in my xml. do you have any suggestions? Thanks

Hi,
I am using the URL to extract image.....i have an xml element named IMAGE_URL but when i add the following text
url:{IMAGE_URL} to the alt-text box of the image field....nothing happens...its blank.....can someone please help......
i have tested url:{'http://www.freepicsupload.com/pics/phpRvyqfv-Autumn%20Leaves.jpg'} and it is working fine....

I have the same problem. When i hard code the image path into the image control Alt text tab, it's working fine.
But when i'm trying to use element from the XML , the image comes out blank.
can anyone assist with that?

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